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Abion is a growing IP boutique dutifully serving a differentiated client base that encompasses SMEs and multinationals. With the opening of the office in Milan, Abion has further strengthened its position in the fashion and the food and beverage industries.
Notable trademark practitioners: Silvia Asioli, Eleonora Ortaglio and Lorenzo Litta.
Bird & Bird’s intellectual property practice in Italy is highly recommended for patent disputes work, and for its pan-European patent litigation expertise. The IP team’s experienced trade mark attorneys assist clients with brand protection services.
Notable practitioners: Paola Ruggiero, Daniele De Angelis and Edoardo Barbera.
Notable patent practitioners: Giovanni Galimberti, Massimiliano Mostardini and Antonella De Gregori.
Partners Giovanni Galimberti and Massimiliano Mostardini lead the firm’s Italian IP practice
IP agency Bugnion SpA has one of the busiest IP filing and prosecution practices in Italy. The firm expanded in 2022 thanks to the acquisition of IP firm Cuccia & Simino.
Notable patent practitioners: Ezio Bianciardi and Paolo Bellomia.
Notable trademark practitioners: Paola Stefanelli and Donatella Prandin.
Castellano IP is a boutique IP firm founded in 2021. The firm combines hard and soft IP with expertise in trade marks, e-commerce, unfair competition and data protection issues. The firm is also buoyed by a dynamic prosecution function in the life sciences and TMT sectors.
Notable practitioners: Carmen Castellano.
GR Legal is a specialist litigation boutique founded in 2020 after a domestic merger. The firm has accrued vast experience in IP contentious, out of court consultancy and advisory services. IP transactions are complements.
Notable practitioners: Luca Give and Aurelio Richichi.
Founding partner Luca Give co-heads with copyright specialist Aurelio Richichi.
2026
"I like working with HSFK in many respects. First of all, they are amazingly responsive and hands-on, as well as providing top quality work and real added value. They are very strategic and pragmatic in their advice. When we have complex/contentious issues, we use Laura Orlando and Sara Balice who are the best possible team one could have on their side. I have been using Laura Orlando for 15 years and she is my go to lawyer for any IP issue. She's brilliant, creative, very well-prepared and a lovely human-being."
"I very much value the way they manage trademark portfolios. They hired Annamaria Algieri from DLA Piper a couple of years ago especially for this role and she has been an amazing addition to the firm's already terrific team."
"Another feature of HSFK that I find pretty unique in Italy is that they have the genuine ability to coordinate cross-border matters from Italy. They have a cross-border team based in Milan, with English law qualified solicitors, and we have used them to coordinate a major cross-border project concerning IP-heavy contractual agreements subject to English law."
Laura Orlando
"Laura is pretty unique as she combines amazing commercial and contentious skills. This means she can preempt issues and is always spot-on on strategy. She turns complex things into simple ones and gives me input that I can get management to easily understand. She also is great at coordinating the team. She coordinates the enforcement aspects with Sara Balice who also is an amazing litigator, but she also coordinates the trademark portfolio prosecution work of the team led by Annamaria Algieri. Last year we needed support on a complex matter concerning IP-heavy cross-border agreements and Laura literally overnight put together a team with English law qualified solicitors based in Milan and with Italian language capabilities. Overall, Laura has built a terrific IP firm in Milan which I think is by far the best in the market."
"Laura Orlando is the perfect life sciences litigator. She is the complete package: a skilled and experienced tactician; a thoughtful and intelligent lawyer; and a warm and thoroughly human client adviser. She is not a one-woman show - she leads a large team including many outstanding lawyers. I found Sara Balice particularly impressive, but the whole team is incredibly good and responsive. They are a huge team, which also includes UK-qualified solicitors based in Milan and patent specialists with scientific background. This has helped us immensely as we find a 'one stop-shop'. The breadth and size of the team is also particularly reassuring for us, as the scale of our projects requires well structured and responsive teams - there are no other IP departments of firms operating in Italy which equal the breadth and depth of the HSFK IP practice. They definitely deserve a top ranking."
"Laura Orlando is the best possible life sciences litigator. She is the complete package: a skilled and experienced tactician; a thoughtful and intelligent lawyer; and a warm and thoroughly human client adviser. Her expertise in all three areas of patents, SPCs and regulatory law enables her to advise comprehensively on enforcement and defence strategies in this sector."
2025
"They are extremely creative and clever. They understand the business needs and act as genuine commercial partners.
"They are extremely responsive and great at cross-border work. Lovely people."
"Impressive knowledge of the sector and the regulatory aspects."
"Outstanding quality of work, creativity, responsiveness, and commercial acumen."
"Great communication with our management and business."
"Transparency on costs."
"Lovely individuals. Pleasure to work with."
"They have all that we need: technical excellence, commercial acumen, a business-like pragmatic approach, and the ability to think creatively and out of the box," notes a client. The client also values the firm's "transparency and proportionality on costs".
"They are amazing. [They have] a very large team of excellent associates. There is no other IP team based in Italy that has such depth and breadth, combined with the outstanding quality of their services. They have a unique ability to advise on cross-border European work."
IP Law Galli is admired on the Italian market for the quality of its advice. The firm has extensive experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, technology, media, and the telecoms sectors. The firm’s lawyers provide judicial litigation and extrajudicial consultancy services concerning patents, alongside trade mark litigation and licensing services.
Notable patent practitioners: Cesare Galli and Mariangela Bogni.
Notable practitioners: Alberto Contini and Giulia Galimberti.
Jacobacci & Partners is a reputed international IP protection agency. Brand management services include everything from registration to international anti-counterfeiting. The firm represents clients in patent filing on national, European, and international mandates with patent litigation capacity.
Notable patent practitioners: Paolo Ernesto Crippa.
Notable trademark practitioners: Franca Acuto.
Boutique IP law firm Jacobacci Avvocati is part of IP firm Jacobacci & Partners, which has offices in Italy, Spain, and France. The law firm is recommended for disputes and transactional IP matters.
Notable practitioners: Barbara La Tella, Paola Gelato, Marco Francetti and Fabrizio Jacobacci, Alberto Camusso, and Claudia Scapicchio.
LGV Avvocati is an IP-orientated law firm in cross-border litigation. In the area of patents and know-how, the firm has obtained several judicial search orders. Unfair competition capacity is equally revered on the market.
Notable practitioners: Simona Lavagnini, Luigi Goglia and Tankred Thiem.
The Founding partner is Simona Lavagnini.
Martini Manna is boutique firm known for unfair competition, commercial and advertising law. It works across cross border proceedings and arbitrations. Sectoral coverage includes entertainment, automotive, electronics, life sciences and information technology. Although exclusively based in Italy, the firm has durable networks in Europe and the United States.
Notable practitioners: Elena Martini and Luigi Manna.
Notable trademark practitioner: Rocco Lanzavecchia.
Murgitroyd is a full-service European attorney firm with a combined prosecution and contentious litigation capacity. Service spectrum breadth encompasses prosecution, oppositions, and dispute resolution. The firm is at the forefront of AI, blockchain, autonomous vehicles, chemistry and metaverse IP.
Notable patent practitioner: Guido Zerbi and Marina Mauro.
Notable trademark practitioner: Elena Brioschi.
Patent attorney Guido Zerbi is head of the Milan office.
Racheli is a leading attorney firm with repute in IP management, clearance, prosecution, enforcement, and commercial exploitation mandates. The firm has a burnished reputation in the automotive, life sciences, and fashion industries.
Notable patent practitioners: Ugo Rossi.
Notable trademark practitioners: Iris Bilardo and Michel Jolicoeur.
Simmons & Simmon’s IP practice in Italy is overseen by partner Giulio Enrico Sironi. In cross-border disputes, the team can also collaborate with colleagues in other European offices, particularly the London office.
Notable practitioners: Anna Colmano and Stefania Bergia.
Società Italiana Brevetti is a leading firm in Italy for intellectual property protection and portfolio management. The firm’s expertise in complex IP includes supplementary protection certificates, predominantly in the pharmaceutical sector. The firm’s IP practice is one of the few with expertise in plant breeders’ rights and advises leaders in the agricultural industry. The practice has an experienced team of patent attorneys handling filing and prosecution work in industries such as biotechnology, chemistry, nanotechnology pharmaceuticals, electronics, and mechanics.
Notable patent practitioners: Elisabetta Papa.
Notable trademark practitioners: Fabrizio De Benedetti, Angelica Torrigiani Malaspina and Mara Mondolfo
Its trade mark department is headed by Fabrizio De Benedetti and Elisabetta Papa heads the patent department.
2026
Giacomo Moleri
"Good listener, solves problems in a very efficient way, prompt and responsive."
Studio Torta is one of the most respected boutique firms for intellectual property protection and portfolio management advice. The firm’s patent team covers a range of technical fields, from mechanical engineering and electronics to chemistry.
Notable patent practitioners: Mauro Eccetto.
Notable trademark practitioners: Raffaella Barbuto, Cristina Rolando and Maria Cristina Baldini.
TCBM is an IP boutique formed by integrating Bianchetti & Minoja and Trevisan & Cuonzo. Biomechanical patent law is a specialism complemented by consultancy and patent prosecution. The team is active before the EPO, EUIPO and WIPO.
Notable practitioners: Fabrizio Minoja, Silvia Bertuccio and Lorenzo Lualdi.
Trevisan & Cuonzo is a leading law firm in Italy for intellectual property litigation with expertise in the automotive, construction, life sciences, mechanical, electronics and consumer goods sectors. The firm has developed a formidable reputation in life sciences and engineering patent disputes.
In February 2022, Trevisan & Cuonzo Intellectual Property Services joined forces with Bianchetti & Minoja under a new consortium. The partners have multiple associates to support them in patent litigation.
Notable practitioners: Gabriel Cuonzo, Luca Trevisan, Daniela Ampollini.
Gabriel Cuonzo is the managing partner and head of life sciences.
Jacobacci & Partners has 95 professionals in 15 offices in 3 countries in Europe (Italy, Spain, and France), supported by 350 paralegals and administration staff.
Our team of highly specialized professionals manage a portfolio of around 120,000 brands for clients of all types: we provide assistance in all areas of brand management, ranging from registration of a company logo to fighting against counterfeiting on a global scale. We work with the client to build a strategy that aims to correctly value, protect and defend their intellectual property rights. IP professionals in the firm’s trademark department have specialties in fashion and cosmetic industries, food, automotive, mechanical, pharmaceutical and agriculture sectors, to cite a few.
Jacobacci & Partners manages over 100,000 patents across a wide variety of subject matter, from mechanics to electronics and software, from industrial and pharmaceutical chemistry to biotechnologies and nanotechnologies. We represent clients in the filing of patents at the national, European and international level and have been involved in complex patent litigation for over 150 years dating back to an infringement action concerning Edison’s light bulb.
The Local Business Development Team is composed of a selected group of trademark and patent attorneys having principal business activity in the small and local regions of Italy, France and Spain, with a client portfolio mainly devoted to SMEs. The aim of the team is to collect and share best practices for assisting the SMEs in the local regions and to foster business development in those areas with the aim to share inside the entire Jacobacci group such best practices among the colleagues.
The firm’s code of ethics is regularly updated, respecting and enhancing the concept of diversity through its diversity policy, which ensures all employees are treated equally with regard to diversity and inclusion. With a female CEO, and many women in central roles, we cannot fail to be a company projected towards inclusion and ever greater gender equality.
Numerous corporate social initiatives have been set up in view of a company policy that harmonizes economic objectives with the social and environmental ones of the reference territory, with the aim of preserving the environmental, social and human heritage for present and future generations. These initiatives relate to the quality, reliability and safety of the product, but also to the safeguard of the environment and health and energy saving, according to a management approach that considers not only strong economic results, but also the wider impact that the company produces, through its work, on society and the environment.
In order to improve working conditions and create a better place and working environment for everyone, the leadership of Jacobacci & Partners has launched the JforYou project starting in January 2023. This project represents an organic and continuous plan, comprising concrete initiatives, dedicated to all people working in our company, with the aim of improving the work environment and promoting a better work-life balance.
Network Memberships
INTA, ECTA, GRUR, PTMG, MARQUES, AIPPI, FICPI, AUTM, LES, LESI, INDICAM, Union des Fabricants
Racheli, your partner in Italy for IP protection since 1925.
Racheli takes its name from its founder, Adele Racheli, the first woman to graduate as a mechanical engineer at the Polytechnical Institute of Milan.
We are an industrial and intellectual property consultancy boutique firm, located in Milan, Italy’s financial and business capital, and provide a wide range of consultancy services and assistance in the registration, commercial exploitation and enforcement of patents, designs, trademarks, domain names, and of intellectual works, in Italy, in the European Union and internationally.
Our highly skilled IP professionals are qualified representatives before the Italian Patent and Trademark Office, the European Union Office for Intellectual Property and the European Patent Office.
Our work culture is based on a high-quality and client focused pro-active service.
Working with experienced and skilled professionals, we assist each client in defining business and legal strategies for the research and development of new technologies, for the communication and marketing of goods, services, and processes.
Network Memberships:
- Order of Italian Industrial Property Consultants
- Italian College of Industrial Property Consultants (FICPI)
- International Trademark Association (INTA)
- Association International pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)
- Licensing Executives Society (LES)
Global Reach with Local Insight. With the combined talent of 2,800 lawyers spanning five continents, we bring a world of relevant experience to every matter. We create clarity from complexity, and forge deep, committed client relationships in the process.
Precision and Progress in action. At Hogan Lovells, we fuel progress with forward-thinking ideas, embracing “the possible” as a mindset to reach the very best outcome. Our deep understanding of highly regulated sectors gives our clients a unique perspective and the upper hand in a complex world. Our sector approach has made us the leaders in life sciences and healthcare, financial institutions, technology, media, energy, and mobility, where we continue to broaden and deepen our client relationships.
Broader Perspectives. Breakthrough Solutions. Clients turn to us for incisive advice and actionable outcomes. Our teams thrive on collaboration, believing that diversity of thought and experience is critical to achieving client ambitions.
Advocates for a more positive future. We stand for legal excellence across the board. Giving back to communities and society is part of our DNA. Through pro bono activities, community investment and responsible business contributions, we make a meaningful and positive impact in our society.
Founded in the mid-1990s, Jacobacci Avvocati-Avocats has always been a point of reference in the field of intellectual property, in Italy and abroad.
Today the firm’s strength lies in a team of 15 partners and over 40 professionals operating in 4 offices located in Italy and France.
All of the lawyers in the firm specialise in different areas of Intellectual Property, from trademarks to patents to design, to protection of the innovative ideas of an international clientele, operating in a wide range of sectors, from technology to services.
Over the years, the Jacobacci Avvocati-Avocats professionals have represented clients in matters of significant legal complexity, across the entire intellectual property landscape, obtaining ground-breaking decisions and contributing to legal precedent, before both Italian and European Courts, in numerous areas of intellectual property law and practice.
National experience and international vocation, attention to detail and exploration of the new frontiers of law. We are constantly focused on the client's needs.
Headed and founded in 2004 by Dr. Professor Cesare Galli, (Full Professor of IP Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Parma), the firm operates mainly in the field of Intellectual Property law with a specific experience in Pharmaceutical, Biotech and TMT Patents and Fashion & Luxury litigations.
Having its main office in Milan and branch offices in Brescia and Parma, the firm came into being as a boutique firm, highly specialized in IP law, Business Law and Competition/Antitrust. The Firm is characterized by the personal imprint of its founder, and has maintained strong reputation by combining it with a firmly market-oriented approach aimed at enhancing the procedural instruments in order to reach positive results in the shortest terms. Professor Galli has also been personally involved in the process that led Italy to taking part in the Unified Patent Court Agreement in 2013 and in the Enhanced Cooperation on the Unitary Patent in 2015 and flanked the Italian delegates in the drafting of the Rules of Procedure (RoP).
The Firm clients include large foreign industrial groups working in the pharmaceutical, chemical, food and fashion sectors and Italian firms operating in the most cutting edge fields such as new technologies as well as TMT, mechanics and electro mechanics industries.
The firm displays a special competence both in patent and trademark litigation and out of court field strategy (such as license agreements and international transfers of technology).
Network Memberships:
AIPPI, LES, INDICAM, AMCHAM
Società Italiana Brevetti is a top-tier, internationally recognised European firm specialising in intellectual property only.
Our IP attorneys have a wide range of specialisations; our services cover all areas of intellectual property, including filing and prosecution of patents, trademarks, designs, models and plant variety rights as well as copyright, domain names, licensing and litigation.
Many of our European patent attorneys are qualified to represent clients before the Unified Patent Court.
We are proactive in devising partnership solutions to work seamlessly with our clients’ organisations.
We provide bespoke services, delivered as best suits clients.
We value diversity, inclusion and human rights and promote equal opportunities within the firm as well as within the IP profession.
Managing IP Awards and Rankings:
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Managing IP Italy Firm of the Year Trademark Prosecution 2026.
- Managing IP Europe Impact Case of the Year Award 2026.
- Only Italian IP firm ranked by Managing IP in 1st Tier for trademark prosecution for 21 years in a row.
We are a close-knit team with a strong passion for intellectual property. We are driven by a commitment to provide our clients with the highest quality of service to best protect and enhance the value of their intellectual property assets.
It is our belief that solutions must be tailor-made for each client’s needs and that various areas of expertise and a variety of approaches are key to determining the best legal strategies. For this reason, we specialize in all areas of intellectual property, and work with equal dedication and expertise in civil, criminal, administrative, customs, extrajudicial and contractual ambits.
Our approach to all cases is global and interdisciplinary. When called for, we use unconventional and creative solutions, sometimes pursuing new avenues in intellectual property.
Though it is our job to analyze all aspects of a case, we believe that our advice to clients must always be clear and to the point. We strive to work pragmatically and cost-effectively while never losing our broader vision.
For almost a century and a half, Studio Torta has played a key role in protecting some of the most relevant patents, high profile brands and innovative designs across Europe and the world.
Our focus has always been on clients, collaborating and innovating with them to create bespoke solutions that protect and help their businesses grow. The long-standing legal experience of our senior partners is complemented by the expertise of talented junior partners on emerging technologies, with a view to meeting the needs of a constantly evolving market with exceptional standards of efficiency and competence.
Studio Torta operates as a joint-stock company with 59 practitioners, 43 of whom are partners, plus 135 staff members. It has offices in Turin, Milan, Bologna, Rome, Treviso and Rimini and can rely on a consolidated network of associates around the world. Moreover, to ensure excellent assistance to our overseas clients, our staff includes Chinese, Japanese, German and French native speakers.
Our motto is: “Value on Innovation”.
Over the last century we’ve been lucky enough to have played a part in protecting some of the world’s most ground-breaking inventions and high profile brands. You can trust us to know IP law inside out, to be curious, and to connect the dots to reach solutions others don’t.
We will provide you with a team, rich in real-world experience, comprising experts who have worked at the forefront of pioneering technologies. A substantial number of our lawyers hold qualifications in scientific or technical fields, meaning we are often called upon for our specialist knowledge and insight on large international mandates. We are respected for our creative and original solutions.
We offer both litigation and transactional support in relation to all IP rights, from small innovative projects to the largest, most complex and ground-breaking transactions and disputes.
Our approach has always been centred on client service, collaborating and innovating with our clients to create bespoke solutions that make their lives easier. This includes: our 'twobirds Pattern' product, a proprietary, in-house patent valuation and analysis tool, that allows us to landscape, analyse, and value patent portfolios in an automated and sophisticated way; and our innovative and dynamic Brand Protection Reporting Portal, which uses dynamic charts that give clients an up-to-date overview of their risk profile at any given time.
Talk to us to find out how our tools, experience and our genuine passion for IP can help you devise a strategy that will help to maintain your competitive edge, whilst protecting and optimising your IP in the best way possible.
Internationally Bird & Bird has over 400 IP lawyers, attorneys and legal professionals across our 29 offices, many of whom have known each other and worked together for years, meaning we're all on the same page and offer consistency and quality that runs through all levels of seniority. We are therefore ideally placed to devise and coordinate multi-jurisdictional litigation strategies and,in the future, to represent clients before the Unified Patent Court.
Office Locations: Australia, Belgium, China, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and United States of America
The Simmons & Simmons international IP team offers the specialist expertise of a boutique IP practice complemented by the full service offering of a major international firm. We are well known in the market for our high-calibre clients and involvement in many of the leading IP cases and transactions, both in the UK and internationally.
Our IP practice, comprising litigation, prosecution and transactional expertise, for both brands/trade mark and patents matters, is one of the only international firms that provide the full suite of IP services from one trusted source – a significant differentiator in the legal market.
We boast an extremely deep and strong bench. Consisting of over 100 fee earners internationally, our IP team has a presence across EMEA (in Belgium, China, Dubai, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, The Netherlands), the UK and Asia.
Known for our expertise in the life sciences, fintech and technology sectors, we leverage our in-depth industry knowledge developed over our 120+ year history to provide the best advice to the most sophisticated clients. The majority of our patent litigators, attorneys and transactional IP lawyers have technical backgrounds, including advanced degrees and scientific research experience, giving our clients the advantage of market leading legal advisors who also understand their complex and cutting-edge inventions.
Martini Manna is a boutique law firm providing highly specialised legal assistance in IP, IT, unfair competition, privacy and commercial law. The firm assists clients in both non-contentious and contentious matters, including UPC and cross-border proceedings, arbitrations, and procedures before independent authorities and juries.
The firm’s mission is to deliver legal assistance to the highest international standards, combining businessoriented advice, clear communication, transparency, ethics, and close attention to the client’s budget. Its lawyers have extensive experience and have received numerous international awards in recognition of their work.
Clients choose Martini Manna for its ability to provide practical, easy-to-read advice grounded in a thorough understanding of their markets and commercial priorities. The firm responds quickly, acts proactively, and seeks to identify potential issues before they arise, helping clients reduce risk and make informed decisions with confidence. Martini Manna also embraces the latest technologies whenever they can make legal work more efficient and cost-effective for clients.
The firm is deeply international in both outlook and practice. Approximately half of its clients are based outside Italy, and its lawyers work daily with foreign colleagues and counterparties.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (HSF Kramer) was formed in June 2025 through the transformational combination of Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin, creating a world-leading global law firm. With over 6,000 people including c.2700 lawyers and spanning 26 offices, HSF Kramer provides comprehensive legal services across every major region of the world. Uniquely positioned to help clients achieve ambitious objectives, HSF Kramer delivers exceptional results in complex transactions and high-stakes disputes.
Our lawyers help the world's foremost companies unlock the value of their IP to protect their investments, secure and maintain competitive advantage and obtain commercial outcomes. Our teams are internationally recognised as market leaders and have acted on some of the most complex disputes and transactions for our clients.
For more information visit www.hsfkramer.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hsfkramer/
Abion: Your Global IP Guardian
Abion is a leading force in the intellectual property (IP) industry. We are an innovative, platform-based provider leveraging 25 years of experience in the digital landscape with a strong foundation as an ICANN-accredited registrar and ISO27001 certified supplier.
Abion's edge lies in combining top-ranked industry experts with advanced technology. This fusion delivers an unparalleled service across the entire intellectual property lifecycle, including:
• Trademark and design prosecution
• IP and legal consultancy
• Enforcement and litigation
• Online brand protection and enforcement
• Strategic domain name consulting
• Web security
Streamlined efficiency at your fingertips
Our cloud-based brand management platform, Abion Core, combines cutting-edge technology with intuitive user experience to streamline managing and protecting your brand all in the one place. It’s a centralised solution that puts you in control of your brand, no middlemen and no service interruptions.
Globally positioned and locally empowered
Our 17 offices covering, EU/non-EU European territories, UAE, Asia and Australasia, combined with a global network of partners, enable us to provide expert advice and comprehensive IP solutions to service virtually any jurisdiction.
Murgitroyd is a rapidly growing firm with innovation at its heart.
For over 50 years we’ve built a reputation as one of the world’s leading strategic IP firms. Trusted by global innovators and businesses to realise and protect the true value of their intellectual assets. History we may have, but we instead face forward. Our success lies in the positive relationships we build and our unrivalled breadth of expertise – from an unmatched technical knowledge to a proven commercial awareness.
We’re more than legal experts – we’re a strategic IP solutions firm with an unrivalled breadth of expertise. Our UK and European patent, trade mark and design attorneys bring together solid legal foundations, unmatched technical knowledge, and a commercial awareness that can drive growth and accelerate success.
We build relationships – globally. Our job is to protect and unlock the full potential of your innovations and ideas – not just in your country, but around the world. Our global team of specialists have an unrivalled knowledge in local laws and practices that provide a benchmark for advice and expertise wherever it’s needed to help you grow your business in markets you never thought possible, in ways you never imagined.
Our global office network spans Europe, North America and Asia. With over 440 employees (including over 350 attorneys) worldwide, our people have leading IP expertise across many industries including automotive, engineering & energy; consumer brands & services; chemistry & materials; life sciences & healthcare; and technology, media & telecoms.
Established in 2020, GR Legal is the result of a merger of two law firms that have been operating for more than ten years in the field of intellectual property.
GR Legal has extensive IP litigation experience in the Italian courts as well as in the European Courts. GR Legal professionals regularly handle proceedings before the administrative Italian and EU authorities. The patent lawyers of GR Legal are UPC representatives. The firm often deals with Italian proceedings involving parallel actions in other jurisdictions related to pharmaceuticals and biotech, chemicals, electronic and mechanical patents, as well as copyright, trademarks and distinctive signs, designs, unfair competition, in the most diverse industrial and commercial sectors.
The firm is also well known for its expertise in disputes involving software and trade secrets.
GR Legal has extensive knowledge of out-of-court matters, and namely the negotiation and drafting of contractual agreements with an IP focus. The firm is often involved in large-cap M&A transactions in relation to IP aspects.
GR Legal lawyers provide assistance in data protection matters and regulatory matters for the life sciences sector.
The diverse team of professionals and the presence of offices in the main hubs for IP in Italy allow the firm to deliver fast and accurate services to its clients.
GA-Alliance (GA) is an international law firm committed to providing legal advice and assistance to national and international clients. Its team of experienced lawyers enables GA to provide high-quality legal services, guaranteeing professionalism and decisiveness in handling the most complex legal issues. With professionals operating in 73 jurisdictions and active in every country worldwide, GA continuous to invest in the growth of a top tier firm distinguished by innovation, flexibility and thoroughness.
After spending more than 50 years in business, Bugnion S.p.A. ranks among the leading Italian and European industrial property consulting companies.
With its office network based throughout Italy, Bugnion enjoys remarkable international visibility and is a major player in the European set.
Thanks to an established tailor-made approach, Bugnion attorneys can effectively identify, protect and enhance ideas, while transforming them into key drivers of a corporate’s asset, besides helping clients achieve a competitive edge in the global market.
Throughout its long-standing activity Bugnion has grown and expanded up to becoming one of the foremost Italian and European partners in the market of industrial property.
Currently totalling more than 200 staff, Bugnion’s network includes offices in Italy, Germany, Spain and U.S.
LGV has exceptional experience in all IP matters and an international breadth including Italian and foreign professionals, all of whom are at least proficient in English and their respective languages.
The Patent department advises on patents and know-how matters across a wide range of technologies, from mechanical system (including textiles, manufacturing equipment and automotive applications) to cutting-edge innovations in microelectronics, optical media, and embedded system. The team has also handled complex mandates in the pharmaceutical, medical device, food and beverage, chemical, biotech and biomaterials.
The Copyright, IT and TMT department, one of the firm’s longest-standing and most distinguished practices. It represents both rightsholders and users of creative works covering everything, from the most traditional content - such as lyrics, photography and literary, musical, and visual works to the emerging digital media, including software, AI-generated content, television, videogames, websites, online platforms. copyright as applied to new technologies is a core focus of the practice with extensive experience in both advisory work and litigation.
The Trademark & Design department protects some of the most prestigious trademarks, distinctive signs and designs across a broad spectrum of sectors of industry, including fashion, sport equipment, automotive, insurance and consumer goods. The team acts for leading multinational clients in the protection, enforcement and strategic management of their IP assets.
